BooksChatter: ☀ Val Muller: Discover Her Latest YA Releases

Thank you for joining us for YA author Val Muller's Tour! Today we are featuring her latest two releases:

The Girl Who Flew Away,
and
The Man With the Crystal Ankh (Hollow Oak, #1)

Don't miss our interview with author Val Muller, where she talks to us about her latest release, The Girl Who Flew Away.

PREVIEW: Check out synopsis, excerpts, and purchasing links for each novel.

Author Val Muller will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN GC and a download code for The Girl Who Flew Away, a download code for The Scarred Letter, a print copy (US only) of The Man with the Crystal Ankh, and an ebook of Corgi Capers: Deceit on Dorset Drivee to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour. Please do take part: comment on our post and follow the tour where you will be able to read other excerpts (☀), interviews (ℚ), reviews (✍) and guest blog posts (✉).

|| The Girl Who Flew Away || The Man With the Crystal Ankh || Author Q&A || About the Author || Giveaway & Tour Stops||

The Girl Who Flew Away

No good deed goes unpunished when freshman Steffie Brenner offers to give her awkward new neighbor a ride home after her first day at school. When her older sister Ali stops at a local park to apply for a job, Steffie and Madison slip out of the car to explore the park—and Madison vanishes.

Already in trouble for a speeding ticket, Ali insists that Steffie say nothing about Madison’s disappearance. Even when Madison’s mother comes looking for her. Even when the police question them.

Some secrets are hard to hide, though—especially with Madison’s life on the line. As she struggles between coming clean or going along with her manipulative sister’s plan, Steffie begins to question if she or anyone else is really who she thought they were. After all, the Steffie she used to know would never lie about being the last person to see Madison alive—nor would she abandon a friend in the woods: alone, cold, injured, or even worse.

But when Steffie learns an even deeper secret about her own past, a missing person seems like the least of her worries…

[12 March 2017, Barking Rain Press, 178 pages.]

The Girl Who Flew Away
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The Man With the Crystal Ankh

Everyone’s heard the legend of the hollow oak—the four-hundred year curse of Sarah Willoughby and Preston Grymes. Few realize how true it is.

Sarah Durante awakens to find herself haunted by the spirit of her high school’s late custodian. After the death of his granddaughter, Custodian Carlton Gray is not at peace. He suspects a sanguisuga is involved—an ancient force that prolongs its own life by consuming the spirits of others. Now, the sanguisuga needs another life to feed its rotten existence, and Carlton wants to spare others from the suffering his granddaughter endured. That’s where Sarah comes in. Carlton helps her understand that she comes from a lineage of ancestors with the ability to communicate with the dead. As Sarah hones her skill through music, she discovers that the bloodlines of Hollow Oak run deep. The sanguisuga is someone close, and only she has the power to stop it.

[12 December 2016, World Castle Publishing, LLC , 259 pages. This is the first book in the Hollow Oak series.]

The Man With the Crystal Ankh
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About the Author

Teacher, writer, and editor, Val Muller grew up in haunted New England but now lives in the warmer climes of Virginia, where she lives with her husband.

She is owned by two rambunctious corgis and a toddler. The corgis have their own page and book series at www.CorgiCapers.com

Val’s young adult works include The Scarred Letter, The Man with the Crystal Ankh, and The Girl Who Flew Away and feature her observations as a high school teacher as well as her own haunted New England past.

She blogs weekly

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